Juvenille Delinquency
In today's society, the problem of juvenile delinquency is running more rampant than ever before. Also, the degrees to which it occurs are far more serious than they were, even ten years ago. The problem used to be over-simplified and chalked up to "kids will be kids", but today's "kids" are contributing to much more serious crimes than they used to. One statistic states that youths under the age of 18 years accounted for 15.4% of arrests for violent crimes and 33.5% of arrests for property crimes in 1986.1 This statistic is more than ten years old, and with the increasing popularity of gang culture and substance abuse amongst young people, it would be safe to assume that these statistics have either increased, or at the very least, remained the same. With numbers as high as they are, delinquency amongst youths must be seen as a social problem that has to be dealt with soon, before it becomes even more out of control than it is right now. Before we can begin to try and treat this behavior, we must establish a cause for it. As with a physical illness, a cure cannot be obtained until a cause is determined, therefore we must uncover the underlying factors that cause this behaviour, and then work fro
3. Wormser, Richard. (1994). Juveniles In Trouble. New York, NY: Review Of Literature And Development Of Hypothesis One problem with my findings is that none of the people I surveyed are professional psychologists, crime experts or youth counselors. I am not receiving knowledgeable fact, simply the opinions of average people in society. However although these people are not "experts", their opinion is still valuable. Most people in society either know a young offender, or have been the victim of one, and therefore are somewhat knowledgeable about the subject.
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